22. Simon Sackett, 1678-1718, oldest son of (7) Capt. Joseph and Elizabeth Betts Sackett, was born at Newtown, Long Island, N. Y., and died at Hopewell, New Jersey. He seems to have been a wayward youth whose love of adventure was stronger than his love of home and kindred. The following record is based on tradition, which supported by recorded facts: "When about seventeen years of age he left home without the consent of his parents and became a sailor. After following the sea for several years, during which he visited many foreign lands, he married - presumably in Ireland - a comely young Irish girl, whose surname was McGaw. His marriage was not approved by his parents, and his cultured sisters treated his bride with great coolness, if not actual rudeness, when after his return to his native land, he took her to the Sackett mansion at Newtown. This action on the part of his parents and sisters he promptly, indignantly and emphatically resented, using language more suggestive of heat than ice is suggestive of cold. And when after a few hours sojourn he left his father's house never to return, he took with him a title deed to property in Hopewell, New Jersey, in consideration of which he agreed to forgo forever all claim to any other portion of his father's estate." His Irish wife proved to be a true helpmate and model mother. Their family life at Hopewell was all that could be desired, and when he died there in 1718, he left his wife and three children in comfortable circumstances. Capt. Joseph Sackett's will, which was executed a few months later, and probated the following year, contains no mention of his deceased son Simon's children. The reason for this omission has already been given.
Children.
82. Thomas Sackett, m. Sarah Haywood.
83. ________ Sackett, a daughter.
84. ________ Sackett, a daughter.